Thematic Bible: Of law
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What then is the law? It was an addition made because of sin, till the coming of the seed to whom the undertaking had been given; and it was ordered through angels by the hand of a go-between.
With the knowledge that the law is made, not for the upright man, but for those who have no respect for law and order, for evil men and sinners, for the unholy and those who have no religion, for those who put their fathers or mothers to death, for takers of life,
So the law has been a servant to take us to Christ, so that we might have righteousness by faith.
Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
And the law came in addition, to make wrongdoing worse; but where there was much sin, there was much more grace:
What then is to be said? is the law sin? in no way. But I would not have had knowledge of sin but for the law: for I would not have been conscious of desire if the law had not said, You may not have a desire for what is another's.
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